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CSU campuses have offered Extended Education (self-support) courses, programs, and services for over a century. Extended Education offers baccalaureate and graduate degree programs, certificates, and many forms of specialized education and training for business, industry, and government. A variety of instructional technologies carry CSU courses to local, regional, national, and international audiences.
Extended Education programs are authorized in Section 89704 of the Education Code. In accordance with Education Code Sections 89704 and 89721(i), revenue collected from Extended Education and Special Session fees may be deposited either in the State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund (CERF) in the state treasury or in a local trust account. While the composition of campus Extended Education programs varies considerably, most units maintain the following common instructional elements: (1) Special Sessions degree, certificate, and credential programs, (2) Open University, (3) contract and extension credit, (4) non-credit certificates, courses, and programs, and (5) awarding of continuing education units.
The CSU Board of Trustees authorized the Commission on the Extended University (see EO 811) which is charged to facilitate, promote, and encourage appropriate Extended Education programs within the CSU. The office of the State University Dean for Extended Education facilitates communication between the Chancellor's Office and the Commission.
As of June 30, 2012, the Extended Education Program had a reserve balance of $166.5 million.


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How to Grow Beautiful Roses
Article written by Saturday6TM blogger Noelle Johnson from AZ Plant Lady.
Do you love roses? You aren't alone. Roses are the most popular flower in the world. Growing roses can be incredibly rewarding, especially when your rose bushes are covered in beautiful, fragrant roses. If your roses aren't looking as great as you would like, don't worry. You can grow healthy rose bushes and increase the amount of roses they produce by adding rose fertilizer and a few other special amendments.
Roses do best in fertile soil, which helps to promote healthy, green foliage and large flowers. The easiest way to achieve this is to fertilize and amend the soil around your rose bushes. The ideal fertilizer is specially formulated for roses, which will include the basic nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium), as well as micronutrients that roses need to grow their best. Your rose fertilizer should be added along with the following 'special' amendments in spring, once your rose starts to produce new growth in spring.
All you need to get started, is a broom (yes, I said a broom).
- Grab your broom and use the handle to make six holes, 8 inches deep around each rose bush. The holes should be equally spaced and about 1 foot away from the base of the rose bush.
- Combine rose fertilizer (follow package directions on how much to apply), 6 cups of compost, 3 cups of composted manure (I use steer manure), ½ cup of Epsom salts and 2 handfuls of alfalfa pellets per rose bush.
- Pour your mixture into each hole, which places it right where the roots are located. Work any extra mixture into the top inch of soil around the base of your rose bush.
- Water your rose bush deeply after applying.
You may be wondering how this mixture helps you grow beautiful roses? The compost helps to improve the soil texture, feeds microorganisms in the soil and increases the amount of oxygen present around the roots. Manure is a natural source of nitrogen along with other nutrients that roses love and improves soil texture.
It's hard to believe that an ingredient like Epsom salts belong in the garden, but they contain magnesium, which roses love and helps them to grow dark green, healthy leaves. Alfalfa pellets aren't just for feeding animals; alfalfa releases an alcohol (tricantanol) that roses respond to by growing more canes (branches), and it increases the amount of roses produced and the size of the blooms.
By adding rose fertilizer and these special amendments, your garden will soon will be filled with rose bushes covered in masses of beautiful flowers. Soon your neighbors will be asking you what your secret is to growing beautiful roses.

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the afflicting hand of a seemingly frowning Providence. I have recd. the
money you sent for the 5 Books & 2/6 more for another, which I now send
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Dear Sister, ever Affectionately, your
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Although some used to predict the rise of the Internet would eventually lead to the demise of public libraries, Marianne Eichelberger hasn't seen business at Newton's library slow down yet.
Although the ways people use the library keep evolving and changing, the Newton Public Library director said there is always a regular stream of people walking through the library's doors to look at newspapers, search for jobs online, ask questions, and more.
"While the Internet does enrich our lives, in no way does this technology replicate or replace the sense of community brought by our library," Eichelberger said. "... The library itself is just as busy as ever, and libraries in general are serving as social centers in communities."
Eichelberger presented the library's 2012 annual report at this week's Harvey County Commission meeting, and she told commissioners the library continues to grow.
The library took in $693,976 in city tax levy in 2012, with about $139,020 expenditures in library materials. Community members made about 150,000 visits to the library last year, and the average attendance per week was almost 3,000. There were 8.4 annual checkouts at the library per resident.
The library has more than 17,000 card holders already, but Eichelberger said she always is surprised by how many new card holders sign up. There were 1,377 new patrons in 2012.
Special programs were popular at the library, and about 15,500 attended children's programs, the most popular being story times.
Eichelberger said demand continues to grow for multi-media materials such as DVDs, video games and Playaway self-contained audiobook listening devices, and eBooks also are growing in popularity.
Still, the library does face some challenges. Last year brought budget cuts, staff shortages, power outages and water coming into the building. The library continues to work on plans for a new facility, but Eichelberger said it will be up to the city commission to decide how to proceed.
Right now, Eichelberger said the library continues to work to increase public awareness of services and to find the best way to utilize resources in the current building. For more information, visit www.newtonplks.org.


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As a constituent, I'm writing to ask you to cosponsor the Mental Health First Aid Act (H.R. 274).
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a public education program that helps people identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. The course trains participants in a 5-step action plan to recognize the signs/symptoms of mental illness, respond to a person in crisis and direct them to professional help.
H.R. 274 authorizes $20 million for FY 2014 for grants to train emergency services personnel, police officers, teachers/school administrators, faith community leaders, primary care professionals, and students in MHFA. This training is critical to reducing the stigma around mental illness and addictions and getting people connected to the professional resources they need.
Will you please sign on as a cosponsor to this important legislation? Thank you for your time and attention to this issue.
National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
This petition closed over 4 years ago
Every year, mental illness and addiction disorders take a tremendous toll on our families and our communities. About one in five Americans experience a mental health or substance use condition,...
Every year, mental illness and addiction disorders take a tremendous toll on our families and our communities. About one in five Americans experience a mental health or substance use condition, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. While many people know how to provide first aid in a health emergency, few know what to do for someone experiencing a mental health crisis.
Please help build support in Congress for passing the Mental Health First Aid Act by asking your Senators and Representative to be cosponsors (or thanking them if they've already signed on)! The more cosponsors a bill has, the greater its likelihood of being enacted into law.


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Editor's Note: Please welcome beer expert Joe Postma to Serious Eats! Joe will be serving up his homebrewing know-how as well as what's happening in the Chicago craft beer scene. Take it away, Joe!
Twisted Spoke is a Chicago beer bar that means business. Complete with full-sized motorcycles planted like flowers in front of the building and subtitled kung-fu on the TV screen, the vibe is a tough-guy bar that you could still bring your mother to. The beer selection is extensive, and the food—mostly fancied-up sandwiches and burgers—is much better than it needs to be.
We love it. And you've voted. See which is the best American beer city.
In celebration of Twisted Spoke's 15th anniversary, the bar teamed up with New Belgium Brewing Company to create a custom blended American Sour Ale. The beer, simply known as Twisted Spoke 15th Anniversary Ale, sounds like a mad scientist's concoction: "65% ale aged in a wood barrel, 14% ale with cherries added, 21% ale brewed with coriander, all aged in apple flavored whiskey barrels".
I asked one of the owners of the Twisted Spoke, Mitch Einhorn, how they came up with this blend, and his response made the experience sound like a beer lover's playground: "I went to Colorado, walked into the brewery, and Lauren and Eric [from New Belgium] had a long table set up with 25 samples of the base beers that were available. They said to taste the beers and have fun. I mixed up a couple of samples, and then they scaled it up to make the batch."
Color me jealous. But how's the finished product?
Even with such a disparate set of ingredients, the flavors meld together to create a balanced product. The beer pours a hazy reddish brown, with a dissipating white fluffy head. A quick whiff gives the smell of dark sour cherries, oak, vanilla, and coriander. The flavor follows with the cherry and oak, and finishes with pear and green apple. Tartness is present throughout, but it's never overwhelming. Over all, this beer is an excellent example of the creativity and quality of American Sour Ales. Unfortunately, you can only find it at the Twisted Spoke ($35/750ml bottle) and Lush Wine and Spirits ($25/750ml bottle) in Chicago.
In addition to the Anniversary ale, the rest of the beer list at Twisted Spoke is pretty impressive. On a recent visit, they were pouring BrewDog Tokyo* and Half Acre Thunder and Sons, and a couple dozen other standards and specialties. If you can't find anything on draft that suits you, their bottle list is even longer. The prices for beer range from average to slightly above, but nothing jumped out to me as being over the top.
On a Thursday evening, we were able to get a seat right away. Service was quick and courteous, and the food was good. We'll be coming back, even after they run out of Anniversary Ale.
Twisted Spoke
501 North Ogden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60642 (map) 312-666-1500; twistedspoke.com/
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Uncle Sam the Middleman
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The Hyperactive Federal Government
The problem with the federal government is not just its vast size, but its increasing scope. It has expanded into many areas that should be left to state and local governments, businesses, charities, and individuals. The federal expansion is sucking the life out of the private sector and creating a top-down bureaucratic society.
Wonkblog's Debt Denial
Tax Reform at Ways and Means
Largest Federal Government Agencies
We've updated the charting tool at www.downsizinggovernment.org/charts with the latest data. You can plot spending on hundreds of federal agencies and programs in constant, or inflation-adjusted, dollars. The charts cover 1970 to 2016.
Which are the largest federal government agencies, and how much have they grown? The following series of seven charts captured from the charting tool shows the 21 largest agencies.
Rep. Roger Williams on Tax Reform
The House Ways and Means Committee is holding hearings on tax reform in advance of major restructuring next year should a Republican win the White House.
Today, Rep. Roger Williams presents his plan to the committee. The congressman's Jumpstart America legislation is a good plan, but I would make it better in these ways:
Balancing the Federal Budget
Large spending cuts should be on the agenda when the next president enters office in 2017. Spending cuts would spur economic growth by shifting resources from lower-valued government activities to higher-valued private ones.


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Fragmentation of media across all digital disciplines such as display, search, social, mobile and video is changing the way that people view, purchase and manage their media budgets.
This has positive and negative ramifications for buyers, suppliers, agencies and specialists in field. It also sparks an age old specialist v generalist debate on how we select media and technology vendors and utilise human capital within digital organisations.
For those of you who are familiar with the Lumascape infographic/visuals of the digital landscapes it is clear that all digital markets are becoming increasingly more crowded and increasingly more complex.
The Lumascapes started by highlighting one of the most complex markets of all: display. More have been added for search, social, mobile and video. All highlight the fact that the journey from advertiser to audience is getting longer.
Does this call for consolidation of agencies, technologies and digital skill sets?
For many a marketer, and sales person, a fragmented market place is a great opportunity to pitch a simple solution. Regardless of the digital discipline you occupy, fragmentation is an issue that cannot be ignored.
However, whether fragmentation is a good or bad thing depends upon the market in which you operate and encourages us to revisit the age-old Specialist v Generalist debate.
The general response to fragmentation has resulted in a charge to consolidate search, display, social, mobile and video media disciplines. However, in order to do this successfully, the role of the specialist becomes ever so much more important.
Should all agencies, vendors, and solution providers rush to 'join the dots' and merge? Should advertisers look for one stop shop digital solutions?
The Specialist v Generalist…..and now the Technologist
Convergence of search, social and display is happening at a rapid pace. Taking mobile, video and the rest of the digital marketing world with it.
In previous posts I explained how the growth of display (including Facebook) and the adoption of search centric techniques and real-time bidding has enabled this.
Convergence has been driven by advancements in technology – management, attribution, tracking. In many ways technology companies in this space are becoming the new agencies of the future.
Agencies and technology providers are racing to integrate. In some cases the integration solutions produced can be staggeringly effective. In other cases the results are detrimental. This is mainly down to a rushed and incoherent mish-mash of technologies, poorly executed organizational structure, and over-priced mergers and acquisitions.
There is an argument that so much change in fragmented landscapes causes unrest and conflicts. This is especially true as agencies, providers, and vendors look to restructure and adapt. This can lead to a dilution of human capital potential and HR churn rate issues.
Fragmentation is not always a bad thing
Specialist fields search as SEO and social media embrace fragmentation. Last week I spoke to Rishi Lakhani, a leading consultant on this subject and in the SEO space in particular.
Rishi states:
Most tools on the market get their data from similar sets of tools. However, no one tool does the same thing well. In my opinion fragmentation isn't a bad thing. It means the development of sub disciplines, which is sorely needed - "sub specialists".
In SEO for example, you don't expect a strategist to be the best link builder or vice versa. The more sub specialists you have, the better the end result. To service each speciality, you need tools that reflect their requirements.
SEO specialists will always be SEO specialists and as the social space fragments rapidly we are almost at the stage where we can call some social media practitioners experts, without the need to feel squeamish.
Social media is not just Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. The scope and breadth of vertical product development and sub specialist disciplines is immense and overlaps with multiple disciplines from mobile to video.
It is one of the most fragmented market places you can find. If you don't have specialists and sub-specialists in social media then, pardon the pun, you could be going around in circles.
More so…when people talk about the convergence of search and display and the growth of real-time bidding on multiple exchanges many fail to realise that it's just as important to ensure people in their specific fields of discipline (human capital) is utilised.
It's easy to see how search influences display. However, there is a high level of complexity in bidding across multiple ad exchanges and gaining knowledge of individual publishers, not to mention learning and enhancing creative skills.
This could cause problems as many organizations build 'biddable media' departments. You have two disciplines being morphed into one.
There is a need for the specialist in both areas. It is not just a case of moving people to the same office, changing business titles and stating that you are integrated.
Utilising specialist human capital and specialist technology in different disciplines can work in a 'sub silos'. If different technologies can talk to each other and ROI can be attributed between channels (and hence specialist vendors) and allocated correctly then maybe one stop shop solutions may not be essential?
Enter the 'special ones'.
If you are an agency or provider in a niche market then maybe sticking to that niche could be the way forward. If everyone offers an integrated solution then who are the real specialists?.. Niches such as SEO, social media, and pureplay search have much room for vertical integration and innovation.
Maybe in a few years the market will be just as fragmented – the only difference being that you have a fragmented choice of 'holistic' solution providers and a new fragmentation threshold.
I am a big believer in the integration of media service and technology services. However, it is not for everyone and few people tend to highlight this fact.
Is it inconceivable that advertisers should look at reducing the number of outsourced suppliers from five to three rather than from five to one?
Far from it. What happens if the one stop solution is not ready - in terms of technical integration and specialist service?. If that's the case it will simply take the business and data, spin it around, and possibly hang the advertiser out to dry.
Structuring for the fragmented future
In many ways the technology providers in the search, display and social media space are becoming the agencies of the future.
Social Media centric agencies are also becoming popular. As Robin Grant of Wearesocial observed last year: 'the need for a 'big idea' is replaced by the ability to have an on-going conversation with different audiences in multiple different places'.
Digital Agencies of today are now viewed as 'traditional'. Marketing around consumer needs will be central and pivotal in shaping agencies of the future. Specialists should be working with marketing and CEOs and leading strategy, not just implementing it.
Many agencies need to be platform agnostic. However, the lines between a digital agency and a technology provider are blurring. It will be interesting to see how agencies and technology providers compete and compare in six months' time.
The role of specialist is essential whilst organisations adapt and integrate technology that is tried, tested, and backed up with supreme specialist talent in each discipline.
Sometimes I wonder if some (not all) agencies, vendors, and technology providers are really geared for integration.
Anyone remember the phrase 'smoke and mirrors?. Offering holistic digital marketing solutions is only part of the answer to fragmentation. People, the transfer of skill sets, and sharing of knowledge are key factors.
Specialist organisations, technology, and consultants fill the gaps in knowledge provided by any technology led integration and company restructure.
As organisations adapt to numerous fragmentation challenges this becomes the 'HR headache' of the next few years. I predict a new talent war will erupt.
Fragmentation in its numerous guises - data, the digital landscape and an increasingly large matrix of vendors does give many a pretty compelling argument for pitching one stop solutions.
Rightly so, in a small minority of cases for the time being. However, integration of technology and service offerings requires more than just than just 'joining the dots' between agency led solutions, buying and selling companies, and hence offering a holistic solution.
The key to success is the integration, utilisation, and development of skill sets across search, social, display and all other forms of digital media.
Many organisations will get this the wrong. The consequences could be disastrous if fragmentation solutions are executed incorrectly and they become 'bubble bursters'.
The role of the specialist (as ridiculous as this sounds) often gets lost in a mist of media hype, about acquisition, consolidation, and 'bigger picture' strategists out of touch with digital media.
Some advertisers don't have a need for multi-product marketing strategies and technologies. It can also be that simple.
One thing is certain. The 'special ones' who understand the client, audience, product, market and technology should stand up and shout out now.
It would be great to hear what the special ones think about fragmentation in their specific field of expertise.
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My ADD-caused-by-too-much-multi-tasking-on-ther-internet was really trying to stop me from getting to the end of that long article....but I made it, and I'm glad I did.
Good observations about the agency landscape at the moment.
Fragmentation is surely just a fact of life? Managing the marketing mix of multiple media types is of course difficult.
From a planning and evaluation perspective you will want to find common metrics and concepts but they will always remain diverse in their specific attributes. I feel that this means that the role of attribution, tracking and analysis are key as a 'hub' for these many and diverse tactics.
If you have a common understanding of your customer journey the challenge in my mind is creating a measurement strategy that allows you to attribute the effects of all media.
My tuppence.
Really insightful blog. The key to success is indeed integration and through the education of staff in a holistic approach.
Thanks Ally.
It will be interesting to see how the landscape changes and who will embrace fragementation - the winners and losers etc.
Hi Rob,
Thanks the comments. I am a big believer in attribution. Attribution is key to success for advertisers and agencies - regardless as to whether you choose an integrated agency/tech approach or outsource to specialists.
great article i must say!
" Offering holistic digital marketing solutions is only part of the answer to fragmentation. People, the transfer of skill sets, and sharing of knowledge are key factors." Couldn't agree on this more. However, one issue remains with any "New" industry is human resource. This is particularly difficult in place like Vietnam i admit.
Good article Andy, thanks!


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U.S. eyes fee at land border crossings
WASHINGTON – The federal government is considering imposing a fee on passenger vehicles and pedestrians crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders.
The Department of Homeland Security suggested studying the imposition of such a fee in its fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which was released last week. But the idea attracted little notice until Thursday, when Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, lashed out at the idea as a potential killer of cross-border business.
"At a time when we are looking to increase economic activity at our northern border, we should not be authoring proposals that would do the reverse," Higgins said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Not much is known about exactly what the border fee would entail. Sy Lee, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the study would take a look at how much the fee might be.
A land border levy would not be the first such fee that Homeland Security has imposed on travelers, however. Airline passengers currently pay a $2.50 security fee, which is incorporated into ticket prices, every time they step onto a plane.
Higgins asked Napolitano about the possible border fee at a Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, but she appeared unfamiliar with the proposal.
"Let me look into that line item specifically for you," she responded.
But in her written testimony for the hearing, Napolitano indicated that collecting some sort of fee at land borders would help pay for America's massive effort to patrol its borders.
"Processing the more than 350 million travelers annually provides nearly $150 billion in economic stimulus, yet the fees that support these operations have not been adjusted in many cases for more than a decade," Napolitano's written testimony said.
"As the complexity of our operations continues to expand, the gap between fee collections and the operations they support is growing, and the number of workforce hours [that] fees support decreases each year."
A border fee also would help the agency address a "staffing gap" at border crossings, the written testimony said.
Nevertheless, any effort to impose a land border fee is likely to face stiff opposition on both sides of the border.
The Canadian government, which only recently teamed with the Obama administration on a "Beyond the Border" plan to ease border traffic and promote trade, appears less than thrilled about the fee idea.
"It's important to note that this is simply a study at this point," said Chris Plunkett, a spokesman at the Canadian Embassy in Washington.
"But we're confident that any study would conclude that the considerable economic damage any fee would do would greatly outweigh any revenue generated."
Ron Rienas, general manager of the Peace Bridge, agreed. He said that much of that damage would happen on the American side, since 75 percent of those who crossed the Peace Bridge in the first three months of the year were Canadians bound for Buffalo.
"I'm obviously surprised to see this because it clearly will have a negative impact on the binational region," he said.
In addition, the idea of a federal border fee raises huge logistical issues, Rienas said.
Homeland Security officials have not indicated whether the fee would be charged on traffic entering America or leaving it, although Higgins' office presumes it would be collected at the points of departure from the U.S., since that's where U.S. customs agents are stationed.
It's also unclear whether customs agents would collect the new fee or if the toll-takers at the various border bridges would do it. But in either case, at the Peace Bridge, the only infrastructure for doing so is on the U.S. side of the bridge for people entering Canada.
"We don't have toll infrastructure set up entering the U.S.," Rienas said. "We only charge tolls entering Canada."
Higgins said he was most worried, though, that any kind of fee would discourage cross-border travel and that fees would be collected at the Canadian border to subsidize the federal government's much more expensive security operations at the Mexican border.
"Are they going to be using the northern border to subsidize operations on the southern border?" he asked.
Higgins vowed to be "very aggressive" in opposing any border-crossing fee.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said he is vehemently opposed as well.
"A secure and efficient border crossing is the lifeblood of the Western New York economy, and seeking to slap travelers here with onerous fees is a bad idea," Schumer said. "We don't need a study to tell us that."
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SOURCE: Quasar Aerospace Industries, Inc.
February 25, 2013 14:46 ET
JACKSONVILLE, FL--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - Quasar Aerospace Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink: QASP) announced it has retained the services of Atlanta Capital Partners, LLC as its investor relations firm. Atlanta Capital Partners assists public companies, private companies and venture capital firms in their effort to communicate with Wall Street, investors and the media.
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Quasar Aerospace Industries, Inc. (Quasar) operates in the aviation and aerospace industry by developing aerospace programs, aviation services and training pilots. Quasar operates through four wholly owned subsidiaries: A-Cent Aviation, Inc., Atlantic Aviation, Inc., Corporate Air Repair, LLC and Quasar Aircraft Corporation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers announced a renewed push on Wednesday to make sweeping changes in the way the military handles complaints of sexual assault, but they face a tough fight attracting the 60 votes they will likely need to get their plan through the Senate.
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said 46 senators - 38 Democrats and eight Republicans - support her proposal to remove the power to decide whether to try sexual assault cases from the military chain of command and put it in the hands of an independent military prosecutor.
"It is a pro-military piece of reform that will enhance our military readiness," Gillibrand said at a news conference with seven other senators, a victim of assault, advocates and retired military officers to announce the effort to pass the proposal this month.
But she has only about two weeks to win over at least 14 more senators before the measure comes before the full Senate as an amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
Gillibrand's plan faces stiff opposition from the Pentagon, where top military leaders argue that prosecutions must remain with military commanders to maintain good order and discipline.
"The Department believes we need more commander involvement, not less, in order to solve this problem," said Army Lieutenant Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman. "Commanders lead by example, they set and enforce standards and help to increase victim confidence in the sexual assault prevention and response program."
Gillibrand's plan also faces resistance in the Senate, where lawmakers including fellow Democrats like Carl Levin, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, say the military's rules for handling sexual assault complaints should be reformed, but would not go as far as Gillibrand.
Levin supports a plan, which is expected to pass as part of the defense authorization bill, to let military commanders continue deciding whether to bring sexual assault cases to trial, but add levels of review by more senior leaders.
An annual Pentagon study released in May estimated that incidents of unwanted sexual contact, from groping to rape, jumped by 37 percent in 2012 to 26,000 cases from 19,000 the previous year.
The Pentagon has also been struggling to deal with a spate of high-profile cases of sexual assault, including some involving personnel charged with combating the crime.
President Barack Obama's nominee to be undersecretary of the Navy, Jo Ann Rooney, has also been caught up in the controversy. Gillibrand and another Democrat who supports her legislation, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, are blocking her nomination in anger about Rooney's comments on her reservations about the plan.
"I believe the impact would be decisions based on evidence rather than the interest in preserving good order and discipline," Rooney said at her confirmation hearing last month.
Gillibrand said the U.S. legal system is based on evidence. "Why isn't that good enough for our service members?" she asked at the news conference, explaining her hold on the nomination.
The Senate is expected to begin debate on the defense bill during the week of November 18. Several lawmakers said they expect opponents of Gillibrand's plan would use Senate procedural rules to ensure that it needs 60 votes - not a majority of 51 - for passage.
Gillibrand and other supporters of her proposal argued that it will enhance military readiness and strengthen morale.
"When young adults commit to serving their country and defending our freedoms, they deserve to know their own rights will be protected, including access to justice," Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa told the news conference.
Ariana Klay, a former Marine officer and Iraq War veteran who was a victim of sexual assault, told how military rules forced her to seek justice from a commander who said she deserved bad treatment because she wore makeup and running shorts.
She said she faced a year of retaliation after filing a complaint before her accused rapists' trial, in which she endured 15 hours of degrading questioning on the witness stand.
"Even an alleged terrorist on U.S. soil has more protection than a U.S. Marine," said her husband, Ben Klay, also a former Marine, his voice breaking as he discussed his wife's case.
(Additional reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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Dr. Kasper's current research interests focus on the biological origins of heart failure. Specifically, his research has focused on causes and prognosis of patients with cardiomyopathy, a serious condition in which the heart has difficulty pumping blood throughout the body. Dr. Kasper works closely with his team at the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute to understand the best ways to predict and prevent catastrophic cardiac events. With your support, Dr. Kasper will be able to continue his significant work in cardiovascular medicine in hopes of impacting the future of patients with cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
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EVERYONE was astounded when, on the eve of the season, Charlie Austin was sold to QPR to balance Burnley's books.
He was tipped for a return to Turf Moor if QPR hadn't clinched promotion to the Premier League. Now they have, that won't happen – even if there was a chance it was on the cards in the first place.
But I can see why the rumours were circulated.
It's hard to see Sam Vokes making an appearance until Christmastime, such was the severity of his knee injury, so a move for Austin would seem a good one to address the need for a big fella up front to work with Danny Ings and to provide competition for Ashley Barnes.
Nicklas Bendtner is another candidate who has been mentioned following his release from Arsenal, although he has also been mentioned in connection with Hull and is said to be keeping his options open.
He hasn't really done much for the Gunners, but if there was a chance Sean Dyche could get him then I think he could transform him into a force to be reckoned with, just like he turned Danny Ings and Sam Vokes into one of the most feared strike partnerships.
An old saying from my day is that you don't become a bad player overnight and I feel that's the case with Bendtner. It just needs to be coaxed out of him.
That's a strength of the Burnley manager's – his man-management.
It's second to none and because of that he has generated a very happy squad and, in turn, success for the Clarets.
Although wages alone would put Bendtner out of reach, we are in a very healthy position financially and should have no problems in signing more realistic targets to bolster our squad for the task of competing in the Premier League for the coming season.
The manager has said he wants to keep Chris Baird and that would be a good signing – a Northern Ireland international with plenty of experience at the top level.
He is a versatile player too and would slot back in immediately with the rest of the squad after making an impact on his short-term deal.
I know the former Fulham defender lives and is settled in the south, but I went down south during my career and when I got the chance to return to the north of England I jumped at it, because Lancastrians are good people and always make you feel welcome.
They've always been nice to this Irishman anyway.
* I know none of us can wait for Premier League football to return to Turf Moor, but there is one person who is especially excited to see Burnley back in the top flight and that is Jay Rodriguez.
It's incredible that he and Sam Vokes suffered the same injury just a couple of weeks apart. I really feel for them both because they were at the top of their game.
But hopefully they will be playing in the same game next season. I know how hard Jay is working to get back to where he was.
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Bruce Weber is only one year into his tenure as Kansas State's basketball coach, but he already has a contract extension.
On Wednesday, K-State announced it was adding a year to his original five-year contract and boosting his salary to $1.75 million for the 2013-14 season. His new deal will increase his salary $100,000 a year until it ends after the 2017-18 season. He made $1.5 million last season and was due to earn $1.6 million next year.
According to his original contract, Weber became eligible for the extension when he was chosen Big 12 coach of the year after leading the Wildcats to a 27-8 record and a share of the program's first regular-season conference championship since 1977. He was scheduled to negotiate a new deal with K-State athletic director John Currie next spring, but Currie opted to move up that timetable.
"Our men's basketball program, from top to bottom, has made continued improvement under Coach Weber and his staff since their arrival last April," Currie said in a statement released by K-State. "From our first conference championship in 36 seasons to a record number of players on the Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll, I am extremely excited about the forward trajectory of our program under his leadership."
Weber came to K-State from Illinois last March after the departure of Frank Martin. He inherited a veteran team and won more games than any first-year coach in school history.
"My family and I couldn't be more thrilled with our decision to come to K-State," Weber said in a statement released by K-State. "It has been a magical year in our athletic department that started with the success of our football team under Coach (Bill) Snyder's leadership, and our team was able to seize that momentum and win our first conference title in nearly four decades.
"Whenever you have success, it is a direct reflection of your team and staff, and I have said all along we had great chemistry between our players and staff all year. I'm so proud to be associated with this group of players and coaches, and I can't thank them enough for their hard work and sacrifice this season."
The Wildcats earned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but lost their first game to No. 13 seed La Salle in their first game.


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Wanderfalls Guesthouse
Niagara Falls's top rated hostel. We have free Wi-Fi, free breakfast, a fully equipped kitchen and more. Experience the warm and friendly atmosphere of our small home hostel. We are a short walk to the Niagara Falls State Park. After enjoying the day at the falls, come home and relax.
48 hour cancellation policy. No later than 4 pm the two days prior to your scheduled arrival. Cancellations made after that will be charged for the first night's stay. For example, if your reservation is for Friday, you must notify us by 4pm on Thursday to not be charged for the 1st night's stay. No shows will be charged the full nights stay.
Niagara Falls' Friendly Home Away From Home! Located 1 block from the Niagara River Gorge, a short walk to the Falls along the gorge, and 3 blocks from public transportation and the supermarket. We are the perfect choice for Niagara Falls travelers who prefer inexpensive and comfortable accommodations in a cozy and friendly home environment to the sterile and isolating atmospheres of large hostels and expensive hotels and motels.
Our guests love meeting new people and are open to shared accommodations and communal living.
At Wanderfalls Hostel and Guesthouse, you can:
* Relax in the common areas, like the diningroom, livingroom, porch or yard.
* Prepare your own meals in the well-appointed kitchen.
* Meet other travelers, make new friendships, and enrich old ones.
* Get free tourist tips and information from the staff and fellow travelers.
* Participate in group activities like guided tours, bike rides, picnics, and potlucks.
* Start your day with fresh coffee & tea.
* Access free WI-FI.
* Enjoy the library and exchange books..
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Whether you're traveling solo or in a group, our amenities let you improvise the perfect mood for whatever activity you decide to pursue. Read in the library. Share travel experiences with the other hostellers. Play games. Cook yourself a meal in the kitchen, or out on the BBQ.
After taking in the spectacular views and the local attractions, Wanderfalls is the place you'll love to return to at the end of the day. It's just like coming home!
We're just three blocks from the bus depot. And if you travel here by car, parking is available both on the property and street right out front. The Falls are 1 mile away, an easy walk from here, en route to some fun tourist stops, a neighborhood grocery store, post office, shops, and restaurants.
Taxes of 13% are not included in the price. In order to keep prices low, cash only please.
Check-in is between 4 pm and 9 pm. Check-in outside of that time period must be agreed upon in advance in order to be assured someone is here to let you in.
A late check-in fee of $10 will be charged for check-ins after 9 pm. No check-ins after 11 pm without prior notification and approval.
Should you need to cancel, please notify the hostel directly no later than 48 hours prior to your reservation date to not be charged. No shows will be charged the full nights stay.
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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• We do not allow children under the age of 5.
• Taxes of 8% for dorm beds and 13% for the private room are not included in the price.
• In order to keep prices low, cash only please.
• You may check-in between 4 pm and 9 pm. However, since we are small guesthouse & hostel, we do not have a 24-hour front desk and we are not always at the hostel. You must let us know what time to expect you so that we can be sure to be at the hostel when you arrive.
• A late check-in fee of $10 will be charged for check-ins after 9 pm and must be approved in advance.
• Should you need to cancel, please notify the hostel directly no later than 48hours prior to your reservation date to not be charged. No shows will be charged the full nights stay.
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Hostel is located at 601 Spruce Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY between Main Street and Whirlpool Ave.
The local bus line is run by Niagara Frontier Transit Authority. The Portage Road Transfer Station is 3 blocks from the hostel.
Plane: If you arrive by plane in Buffalo, you can take a cab ($70-80), request our shuttle service ($45-55) or take a NFTA bus to Niagara Falls.
Train: Amtrak comes directly to Niagara Falls and from the station you can get a cab to the hostel.
Bus: Major bus lines, such as Greyhound, go to Buffalo. From Buffalo you can take the NFTA bus to Niagara Falls.
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text: Farmers Have Only 40 Chances to Innovate December 11, 2013 06:20 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Boyce Thompson AgWeb Email Indiana farmer Kip Tom challenges farmers to do more with less. Building on the theme of Howard G. Buffett's book, 40 Chances, Kip Tom told a Farm Journal Forum 2013 audience last week that the typical farmer doesn't take full advantage of the 40 growing seasons he may experience in a lifetime to improve productivity. "We have a real problem in agriculture—we fail to innovate," said Tom, managing partner of Tom Farms, based in Leesburg, Ind. "We've heard discussions today about some innovations, but we aren't doing it at the pace we need to. We need to dig deeper, reach further and all participate together to try to find the means to innovate further on our farms." Listen as Tom discusses the future of ag innovation: "I actually concluded my 40th crop at the end of Thanksgiving," Tom added, "and at the end of the day my kids came up to me and said, 'Is this it, are you gone now?'" Although the comment drew a big laugh, it's clear that Tom isn't done farming and innovating. Farmers, he said, have their work cut out for them. Agricultural productivity grows by 1.4% a year, based on yield improvements, while global demand for food increases by 1.75%. "That's a gap that's going to continue to grow unless we bring innovation to the farm gate and produce value to the consumer," Tom said. Tom took the audience through some tactics his farm employed to achieve a corn yield of 228 bu. per acre this season. He attributed an additional 2 bu. to 18 bu. per acre to applying advanced algorithms to seed and fertilizer rates. "We're grabbing soil samples to figure out how much fertilizer to apply, on every one hectare of land," he said. "We can vary the population of corn per row" based on soil conditions. "Soon we'll be able to vary by type of seed." To assist in conservation, Tom's irrigation system monitors how much water it pumps per minute and how many kilowatts of electricity it uses. The farm adjusts how much water is applied to each field, based on how much water the soil can hold, soil type and organic content. The data is used to improve productivity and reduce runoff. Tom employed drones for the first time this summer to provide real-time analysis. The small aircraft used infra-red technology to shoot biomass maps and stream the information back to the farm office, where it was used to build a prescription for improving productivity. During harvest season, he said, combines went through the fields, transmitted data into the data cloud, "and we knew instantly when a field was completed, how many bushels came off it, and what the productivity was. We can run hundreds of tests across an 80-acre field to find the best means to increase productivity." Tom is pleased with the productivity tools—better seeds, precision farming equipment—that he receives from suppliers. "I can tell you it's working," he said. The missing piece is an industry-wide, back-office Enterprise Resource Planning computer system to aggregate and analyze data from various sources, he said. In the meantime, farmers have so much data at their disposal that some might need to invest in someone to manage and analyze it. Innovation, Tom said, is the key to feeding the world's growing population. As farmers improve their yields, the country will need to invest in its infrastructure to move more goods around. In the meantime, farmers will need to step out of their comfort zone. "We've been fearful to take that risk because we knew we only have 40 chances to get it right," Tom said. "We hope now with the profitability that's been in the ag sector, and with our knowledge of the tools available to us, that we can invest back in and innovate in agriculture." Back to news


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Just minutes from downtown Portland in the heart of Washington County, you'll find everything you expect from Oregon's premier shopping destination – except sales tax.
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Washington Square is Oregon's premier shopping destination with five anchors, including Oregon's largest Nordstrom, Macy's, JCPenney, Sears and Dick's Sporting Goods and over 170 specialty stores such as Coach, Amazon Books, Sephora, Apple, J.Crew, Michael Kors, Aritzia, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, LEGO, Made In Oregon, H&M, Victoria's Secret and Gigi Aveda Salon & Spa. Dining options will please any palate with choices such as The Cheesecake Factory, Portland Seafood Company, Thirsty Lion Gastropub & Grill, and Nordstrom Café – as well as a food court with 10 more restaurant options.
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Oh, the Wrinkles You'll Get!
The history and aesthetics of the lines on your face.
Read more from Slate's Geezers Issue.
In the past few years, we have become quite sophisticated in our understanding of wrinkles and the various methods for erasing them. We are versed in the physical and social repercussions of unfettered aging—skin cancer, job discrimination, invisibility in a society that shamelessly values youth. Indeed, in 2007, 11.7 million Americans underwent some sort of cosmetic procedure (surgery, Botox, fillers, and the like), an 8 percent increase from the year before and a 457 percent increase from a decade earlier. Yet we also fear the sometimes-poor results of these endeavors: the blank foreheads of Botox, the wind-tunnel face-lifts favored by various actresses and socialites, the regrettable collagen sins committed by Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. Why do some wrinkles prompt people to seek surgery and others trouble them hardly all? What does the topography of a face say about a person? Why do we shun the lines we shun, and why do we keep the lines we keep?
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When I began this blog, I wondered if I could find enough topics to keep it going for a couple of months. Thanks to my fellow Irish family historians, especially those who attend the talks I give in the Philadelphia/NJ area, I am learning something new about Irish genealogy constantly. I find that the Irish researchers I meet are invariably friendly and always happy to share their knowledge and discoveries with me, and each other. From being a rather lonesome hobby done in dark microfilm rooms, genealogy has become a social activity in itself, which is a boon for Irish researchers. Because of its degree of difficulty, Irish researchers benefit greatly from interacting with each other. When I began my family history research in earnest in the 1980's, it was difficult to find a lecture on genealogy in the Philadelphia area, now I have my pick of one or two a month. The audiences for my own talks have grown from a handful of diehard researchers to rooms of engineers, lawyers, and Hibernians--all wanting to know how they can begin keeping their Irish family history.
Genealogy in general has emerged from being the realm of those who belong to lineage societies to encompass those of us who search for more recent immigrants. So many people tell me that they never expected to find any records because their ancestors were "simply" hard-working immigrants who arrived in the US in the 1800's or 1900's. But today, thanks in part to online resources, our salt-of-the-earth Irish ancestors have not been lost to memory. The Irish government, archives, libraries, and heritage organizations also deserve credit for preserving and making available their records for our research, especially for increasing the amount of online databases.
I remember, in the days before Al Gore invented the Internet, when it took me a few months and a few "snail mail" letters back and forth across the pond to find out where in Ireland the townland of Innishatieve was located (in County Tyrone). Today, thanks to the legions of researchers helping each other online and in person, most researchers can locate an ancestral townland in a few minutes.
I like to think that we are doing good by discovering the stories of our ancestors' hardscrabble lives and by preserving their memories. Their "ordinary" lives were far from mundane. These people fought hunger and poverty just to stay alive and to keep their families from disappearing. They left all that was familiar to them to set off for foreign lands in order to grab the future. Their stories are epic and mythic, no less so than the tales in storybooks and histories. So join me in telling them and start your own family history blog!
If you are interested in finding more blogs on genealogy, or want information on telling your ancestors' stories in your own blog, check out GeneaBloggers:
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New Radio Recorder Schedules and Seamlessly Saves Web Radio Broadcasts
New Radio Recorder Schedules and Seamlessly Saves Web Radio Broadcasts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) - Applian Technologies, the publisher of several leading online media recording products, today announced the release of Replay Radio 9. This new radio recording software schedules and records thousands of radio shows, and transfers them to any Windows™ compatible PC, or any iOS™ or Android™ tablet or mobile phone. With the updated Replay Radio 9, radio fans now have on-demand access to all of their favorite radio programming at home, or on the go.
"Replay Radio is the ultimate radio recorder," said Applian Technologies CEO Bill Dettering. "It has two ways to capture radio programs: by downloading a perfect digital copy of the original recording, or by using a sophisticated high quality audio recorder that can record from any web site. The audio recorder can even record multiple streams at the same time. There's never been anything like this in the history of the world."
Using the comprehensive, built-in Media Guide of hundreds of radio shows, station and programs, Replay Radio customers pick their favorite stations or shows, and the radio program is scheduled and recorded automatically. Additionally, recorded programs can be converted into MP3 or other audio formats, and automatically transferred to mobile devices using Dropbox or Google Drive, or copied to the listener's iTunes library.
Replay Radio 9 is available for purchase via the Applian Technologies website starting at just $2.95 USD per month. A limited, demo version of the software is available for download.
Applian Technologies is also offering a one-year subscription to Replay Radio 9 as part of its bestselling Replay Capture Suite, a powerful package of several apps that allows customers to:
The updated version of Replay Capture Suite can be purchased for $79.00 USD. A limited demo version of the product is also available for download via the website.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - April 6, 2013 --An eastern Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to 28½ years in prison in the kidnapping of a teenage girl over a drug debt.
TheReading Eagle says 27-year-old Grace Perez-Jimenez was sentenced Friday in federal court in Philadelphia. She pleaded guilty last summer to conspiracy, kidnapping, and drug and firearms charges.
Authorities said the defendant sold $500 worth of crack cocaine to a Reading resident but wasn't paid, so she and another woman kidnapped the customer's 14-year-old daughter in November 2011 as she walked home from school.
Police said she threatened the girl while brandishing a gun, but the pair later released the teenager unharmed after receiving $1,000 in ransom.
Co-defendant Samantha Conrad was sentenced in December to 7½ years. She said she regretted not protecting the girl.


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4-way Representation - Trig System of Equations
Lesson 15 of 16
Objective: SWBAT use multiple representations to solve a system of trigonometric equations.
Big Idea: All students are challenged to represent their solutions to a system of trig equations in four different ways.
Review 3-2-1 Assessments
I will take some time at the start of class today to review the 3-2-1 Assessment from yesterday's closing segment. Today, I will address only the questions. If I don't find time to address all of these today, I will keep them up and come back to them at the beginning/end of class throughout the next week. I only remove a Sticky Note once I have answered the question, and then I know which questions have not been answered.
These assessments shed light on the ways that some of my students are struggling. I had a couple of comments like "Can you start over? I am so lost." Being that these were anonymous, I encouraged kids that wrote these things to see me for help outside of class. It is a nice formative assessment of the class as a whole. Are they ready to move on? If not, you may want to back it up and take a day to review. These next few days students will be modeling with real world data, so it may be too challenging if they don't have the pre-requisite skills from the beginning of this unit.
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After reviewing some questions from yesterday, I will begin students work today by asking them to complete the problem on Page 2 of the 4-way Representation Flipchart. This problem requires students to recall how to solve a system of equations. Depending on a student's solution methods, it may also require a student to review solving a quadratic equation.
I expect my students will solve the problem in many different ways:
- Graphing – putting in both equations and finding where the two functions intersect
- Graphing – setting the two equations equal to each other and graphing in standard form, found x-intercepts
- Table – put in both equations and find where the table values say they are equal
- Table – using standard form of combined equations and finding where equal to zero
- Algebraically – substitution method and then used quadratic formula or factor
- Algebraically – elimination method and then used quadratic formula or factor
It would be awesome for students to present all these different methods to help remind their peers of them, but I tend to think that would take too long. Instead, I plan to remind students by identifying all of the solution methods I am seeing. I will most likely encourage students to use Methods 3 and 4 above to check their answers, but not to solve the system. It is an inefficient method when working in the set of real numbers.
If I model the solution, I will use Method #5. I think that this will be most helpful in scaffolding the remainder of the lesson.
For the last 10 minutes of class, have students complete the Yo-Yo Problem on the back side of the Student Worksheet: 4-way representation. This problem guides students through writing a function to model the motion of a yo-yo. So, it is not necessarily closing out the learning from today's lesson, but reviewing past concepts from the last unit in context. Students can text in their answers (see Page 4 of Flipchart). I will use the information they text in to judge what they remember from the last unit about writing trig functions.
Teacher's Note: If my students need more time on the 4-way model, I will assign this closure problem as homework and address it at the start of class tomorrow.


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Welcome to the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University. We are a school committed to social and economic justice in our curriculum, scholarship and service.
After more than 40 years, we are still vibrant and strong. We invite you to review our website to learn about educational opportunities in one of the premier schools of social work in the nation. Our B.S.W. and M.S.W. programs prepare students for professional practice with adults, children, families, organizations and communities, as well as for practice in child welfare, health care and mental health, among other settings.
In addition to holding continuous national accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education, and to being the home of the "Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare," we are fortunate to have faculty members with many years of teaching, research and service in the School of Social Work. Our faculty members are known for their strength in integrating professional practice experience and scholarship into the classroom experiences of students.
These characteristics have contributed to our success in educating thousands of students for careers in human services throughout the state of Michigan and beyond. Our graduates leave the school prepared to be "change agents" who are able to make a difference in a world of human challenges. Consequently, the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University is a preferred choice by men and women seeking a quality social work education.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions or if you need additional information about our programs. We would like to be your school of choice for social work education. We are committed to what we do—educate change agents—and we invite you to join us.
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Even mild hearing loss can affect a child's ability to speak and understand language, as well as impact behavioral development. Nemours' audiologists use state-of-the-art technology and innovative testing techniques to assess your child's hearing sensitivity. We can evaluate and treat hearing at any age, beginning at birth.
Hearing loss in children occurs in an estimated three out of every 1,000 babies born in the United States each year. At Nemours, we are dedicated to finding the best solutions to address each child's hearing impairment, and we're committed to counseling and educating families to be advocates for their children in the community.
We have board certified audiologists who are licensed with specialized experience in pediatric audiology.
Our audiologists help diagnose and develop treatment plans for children with hearing disorders such as:
- hearing loss
- (central) auditory processing disorder (APD)
- auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD)
- balance (vestibular) and dizziness disorders
At Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and a number of Nemours Children's Clinic locations in the Delaware Valley and North and Central Florida, we are also able to provide children with hearing impairment special services.
These services include:
- prescriptions for hearing aids and other assistive and/or amplification devices as well as instruction on the use, care and maintenance of these devices
- cochlear implant, programming and therapy
- counseling for families regarding adjustment to hearing aids and cochlear implants
- specialized programs for children diagnosed with central auditory processing disorder or auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
- working with a child's school and teacher to ensure proper classroom equipment and modifications are in place
We look forward to forming close relationships with our patients and monitoring their progress over time.
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- guardianship and custody papers, if a legal guardian rather than a parent accompanies your child
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- Insurance We Accept: See accepted insurance, listed by location.
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- Financial Assistance: Get help with your child's health care expenses.
- MyNemours: Access your child's medical record online.
Hearing loss and auditory disorders can cause delays in a child's speech, language, and cognitive development, so early identification and management of auditory problems and hearing loss in children is important. The Audiology Department at Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Pensacola offers comprehensive audiological services for children from birth to age 21.
Our certified audiologists are specially trained to perform evaluations on children with hearing, balance, and other ear-related problems. We use the most up-to-date equipment and innovative pediatric assessment techniques to determine your child's hearing sensitivity and management needs.
Our services include assessment and monitoring of children with conditions such as:
About 3 in 1,000 babies are born with hearing loss (also called hearing impairment), making it the most common birth defect. A hearing problem can also develop later in life. Our program is designed to closely monitor hearing loss in children. We collaborate with the ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) department to investigate the possible cause of your child's hearing loss.
We are able to identify and provide treatment recommendations for children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder(ANSD), an auditory nerve disorder that can make it difficult for children to hear or distinguish one sound from another.
Hearing Evaluations
Our audiologists conduct full hearing diagnostic evaluations in sound-treated rooms with specialized, state-of-the-art equipment. The methods used to test a child's hearing will depend on the age of the child, the child's ability to cooperate, developmental, and health status.
General Hearing Tests and Evaluations
Typically, hearing evaluations begin with general diagnostics, or behavioral testing, in one of our sound-proof booths. These tests include:
Hearing tests based on child's age and functional level:
- Children 6 months to 3 years: Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA). The child is seated on the parent's lap and sound is transmitted through the soundfield speakers, looking for localizations or changes in behavior. This is not an ear-specific test, but reflects the sensitivity of the better ear.
- Children 3-5 years: Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA). The child wears either insert earphones or supraaural (headphones) and responds to ear-specific stimuli through the use of a game (i.e. putting a coin in the bank etc.).
- Children 5-18 years: Standard Behavioral Testing. The child wears insert or supraaural earphones and responds to stimuli by repeating a word or pressing a button.
Tests eardrum flexibility and reflexes of the middle ear muscle. While not a hearing test, it is helpful in identifying middle ear problems, such as fluid collecting behind the eardrum.
The child's ears are evaluated with an immittance bridge by placing a soft tip in the ear which then assesses eardrum movement, middle ear pressure, and the reflex of the middle ear muscle. This does not require a response from the child, although sitting quietly is required for this brief evaluation.
Measures the function of the outer hair cells, or the "natural amplifiers," which lie inside the cochlea.
During an OAE test, a soft tip is placed in the child's ear canal, which transmits sound to measure the outer hair cell function in the cochlea. This can be obtained in seconds on a sleeping infant or an older child who is able to sit quietly.
A normal recording is associated with normal outer hair cell function and this typically reflects normal hearing although in some cases the hearing loss may be due to problems in other parts of the hearing pathway.
Specialized Testing
If your child need further testing beyond the behavior hearing evaluation, your audiologist may recommend one of the following diagnostic tests.
This diagnostic test evaluates functioning of the auditory (hearing) nerve, and can be used as a predictor of hearing level. It is done while the baby/child is asleep (if 3 months or under) or sedated (over 3 months of age).
ABR testing is commonly performed on:
- Babies that have failed their newborn hearing screening three times and have been medically cleared of middle ear fluid.
- Children who are uncooperative for behavioral testing.
- children who cannot be reliably tested using general diagnostic tests (e.g., due to developmental delay, syndrome-related, etc.).
Testing is performed by placing soft electrodes on the baby/child and an insert tip in the ear canal, which sends a click sound to the ear. Audiologists then measure the neural response and determine the child's threshold of hearing. It lasts approximately 1-2 hours.
Assesses the function of the auditory (hearing) nerve. Abnormal nerve function can make it difficult for children to distinguish one sound from another and understand speech clearly.
This testing is conducted the same way an ABR is done but looks at a different part of the response. The disorder occurs when sound enters the inner ear normally, but the transmission of signals from the inner ear to the brain is impaired (which is typically exhibited by present OAEs and absent or impaired ABR). We routinely do this evaluation as part of a diagnostic ABR.
Rehabilitation and Treatment
If your child is diagnosed with hearing loss or other hearing impairment, our audiologists will make appropriate recommendations based on your child's specific needs and impairment.


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Paul Crits-Christoph, Ph.D.
Paul Crits-Christoph received his PhD in Psychology (Clinical) from Yale University in 1984 and has been on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania since completing his degree. He is currently professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Psychotherapy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an author of over 165 journal articles, over 50 book chapters, and 5 books on topics related to research on the process and outcome of Psychotherapy. After receiving the Early Career Award (1992) from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research, he subsequently served (1996) as president of the Society. In addition, he has been on the editorial board of five journals. His primary interests are in the process and outcome of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety, affective and personality disorders, psychosocial treatments for substance use disorders, and methodological and statistical issues in treatment research. More recently he has been focusing on research on treatments for depression and substance use disorders in community settings.
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